Donna O
29th April 2011, 21:52
I would like to ask a question that has bothered me for most of my adult life….
When I was very young, perhaps around the 6 year old mark, we lived in quite an old house that the whole family (and some paying lodgers we used to host) always say was haunted.
I agree, it was, and two of the incidents that have stayed in my mind the most, was to wake up and see matchstick men lined up along my windowsill, behind the curtains, silhouetted against the night sky. I remember it in so much detail that I checked where the curtains ended to see if it was just some wierd pattern on the curtain, but the arms were sticking out beyond the material. I think there were around six of them
The second time I saw them, there were two I think, they stood directly at the side of me whilst in bed. I woke to see them just stood there, motionless but as clear as day, perhaps they would have been about four foot high and a similar size to me.
On both of these occasions I was sharing a bed with my brother and remember clinging onto him in fear but I was ‘frozen’ and unable to say anything to try and wake him up.
I don’t know how long I laid there each time, but I must have fallen asleep eventually and the next thing I knew it was morning.
It would be fantastic if anyone could shed any light on this for me, or even better, has had similar experiences because as I say, I feel the events were significant and have never faded from my memory.
Thank you for reading my story :)
* I call matchstick men those stick men that children draw, just made up of black lines and a circle for the head if you know what I mean
When I was very young, perhaps around the 6 year old mark, we lived in quite an old house that the whole family (and some paying lodgers we used to host) always say was haunted.
I agree, it was, and two of the incidents that have stayed in my mind the most, was to wake up and see matchstick men lined up along my windowsill, behind the curtains, silhouetted against the night sky. I remember it in so much detail that I checked where the curtains ended to see if it was just some wierd pattern on the curtain, but the arms were sticking out beyond the material. I think there were around six of them
The second time I saw them, there were two I think, they stood directly at the side of me whilst in bed. I woke to see them just stood there, motionless but as clear as day, perhaps they would have been about four foot high and a similar size to me.
On both of these occasions I was sharing a bed with my brother and remember clinging onto him in fear but I was ‘frozen’ and unable to say anything to try and wake him up.
I don’t know how long I laid there each time, but I must have fallen asleep eventually and the next thing I knew it was morning.
It would be fantastic if anyone could shed any light on this for me, or even better, has had similar experiences because as I say, I feel the events were significant and have never faded from my memory.
Thank you for reading my story :)
* I call matchstick men those stick men that children draw, just made up of black lines and a circle for the head if you know what I mean